IT OPS

Reclaim SaaS Licenses from Snowflake Usage Data

Queries a Snowflake usage warehouse nightly for seats with no login or activity in 60+ days.

CategoryIT Ops
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerNightly schedule fires
  • ActionQuery Snowflake for 60-day inactive seatsSnowflakeSnowflake
  • LogicDrop exempt / leave-of-absence users
  • ActionAppend reclamation rows to Airtable trackerAirtableAirtable
  • OutputPost manager sign-off summary to TeamsMicrosoft Teams

What it does

This workflow finds paid SaaS seats nobody is using and turns them into a clean reclamation queue. It runs against your Snowflake activity warehouse, flags every license that has gone dark past your inactivity threshold, and routes each one for manager approval before anyone touches it.

When to use it

Run this when license spend keeps climbing but usage is flat, or during a quarterly true-up where finance wants evidence before you cut seats. It is ideal for orgs that already centralize SSO and tool telemetry in Snowflake.

How it works

  1. 1A nightly schedule fires the run.
  2. 2It queries Snowflake for users whose last activity timestamp across each tracked tool exceeds 60 days.
  3. 3A filter drops anyone on a known leave-of-absence or exemption list.
  4. 4For each remaining seat it appends a reclamation row to an Airtable tracker with tool, cost, and last-seen date.
  5. 5It posts a per-manager summary to Microsoft Teams asking for keep-or-reclaim sign-off.
  6. 6Approved rows stay queued in Airtable for the next deprovisioning pass.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect SnowflakeWarehouses, queries, shares.
  2. 2
    Connect AirtableBases, tables, views, automations.
  3. 3
    Connect Microsoft TeamsChannels, chats, files.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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